video cards count to 2006, and allowed alpha-channels for Stage3D compressed textures.

In March 2012, Adobe announced that Stage3D will be part of the premium features of the Flash Player (stating with Flash Player version 11.2), and thus not available completely free of charge to developers, but based on a revenue sharing scheme. Various notable members of the Flash community objected to the change, referring to it as a "speed-tax".

In January 2013, Adobe classified all premium features as

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